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Wife of murdered Polish mayor takes on hate speech
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Opposition politician’s widow plans to use her platform as an MEP to spread a simple message: ‘No hate.’
By Zosia Wanat and Iga Lis
8/2/19, 5:00 AM CET
Updated 8/5/19, 3:14 PM CET
A photograph of murdered Gdansk mayor Pawel Adamowicz | Sean Gallup/Getty Images
Magdalena Adamowicz is upset. She's forgotten the pin she wears wherever she goes — it has “Imagine there’s no hate” written on it.
Adamowicz's husband Pawel, the mayor of Gdansk, was stabbed to death .. https://www.politico.eu/article/gdansk-mayor-pawel-adamowicz-killing-highlights-poland-deep-divisions/ .. in January. Since then she has made spreading that anti-hate message her motivation in her new job as a member of the European Parliament.
“If we answer hate with hate, we just drive the vicious circle," she said. "One day we’ll just reach the bottom, the hell, and what then, we all just kill one another?”
Pawel Adamowicz .. https://www.politico.eu/article/gdansk-mayor-dies-after-stabbing-pawel-adamowicz/ , 53, was a high-profile liberal critic of Poland's ruling right-wing Law and Justice party (PiS) and an advocate for gay rights and accepting asylum seekers. The man who killed him blamed the main opposition Civic Platform — the mayor's former party — for the time he had spent in prison.
The murder shocked Poland, was condemned by national authorities and sparked a debate about how hate speech can lead to violence. But the aggression hasn't stopped. In July, the first Pride march .. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-poland-lgbt/polish-police-detain-25-after-attacks-on-equality-march-idUSKCN1UG0GH .. to be held in the eastern city of Bialystok was marred by violent attacks on those taking part. Days later, a right-wing magazine .. https://www.politico.eu/article/lgbt-rights-polish-paper-dismisses-court-ruling-on-lgbt-free-zone-stickers/ , Gazeta Polska, gave away “LGBT-free zone” stickers in defiance of a Warsaw court order.
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“It’s really easy to insult someone in everyday life … [but then] I think:
OK, no hate” — Magdalena Adamowicz, widow of late Gdansk mayor
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“People who commit these excesses feel certain consent and impunity,” Magdalena Adamowicz, a 46-year-old lawyer who was elected to the Parliament in May as an independent and sits as part of the center-right European People's Party .. https://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/197490/MAGDALENA_ADAMOWICZ/home#mep-card-content , told POLITICO.
She pointed out other examples of hate speech and violence in Poland in recent years, including the burning of effigies of Jews during Catholic festivities and the printing of fake death certificates for mayors who took in refugees. (The nationalist All-Polish Youth group issued a “political death certificate .. https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10205779433680962&set=a.3217985544432&type=3&theater ” for Pawel Adamowicz two years ago).
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https://www.politico.eu/article/polands-ruling-party-will-exploit-gdansk-murder/
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https://www.politico.eu/article/gdansk-mayor-pawel-adamowicz-killing-highlights-poland-deep-divisions/
“These situations that are typical examples of hate speech, radical, dangerous behaviors, have been downplayed by the authorities, the proceedings [against the perpetrators] have been discontinued, people who committed these actions didn’t suffer the consequences. These groups feel unpunished,” she said.
Following the violence in Bialystok, police detained 25 people and Interior Minister Elzbieta Witek described ..
Thousands of people gathered in Warsaw under the slogan "Stop hatred" last January, shortly after the murder of Pawel Adamowicz | Janek Skarzynski/AFP via Getty Images
Other PiS officials took a different line. Justice Minister Zbigniew Ziobro told the right-wing weekly Sieci .. https://wpolityce.pl/polityka/455999-ziobro-platforma-podsyca-zamach-na-wartosci-polakow .. that the opposition is fueling a “creeping attack on Polish values” and “supporting Christianophobia and intolerance,” while Education Minister Dariusz Piontkowski told .. https://www.tvn24.pl/wiadomosci-z-kraju,3/dariusz-piontkowski-minister-edukacji-o-marszu-rownosci-w-bialymstoku,954671.html .. TVN24 that “perhaps it is worth thinking whether those type of events should be organized since they arouse enormous resistance.”
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Everyone's a target
Adamowicz said she stood as an MEP to tackle the roots of hate crime and hate speech: disinformation, exclusion and social fears. And she added that it's not just minorities who are targeted. “I am Catholic, I’m white … I’m not very ugly or very pretty, not too tall, not too short … but I’m also targeted by hate speech. Not a Jew, not a black person, not a lesbian — today it concerns everyone,” she said.
Her goals include: creating a ‘’European Hate Speech Guide” that will detail the relevant laws in every EU country; forming a cross-party group of MEPs on hate speech and disinformation; getting a legal definition of hate speech in the EU; clarifying the distinction between hate speech and free speech; making internet providers more responsible for removing hate speech; and drawing up a list of sanctions for offenders.
She has already met with Sheryl Sandberg, COO of Facebook, and with representatives of Google, where she lobbied for the introduction of an identity test before people can set up online profiles.
Adamowicz acknowledges the difficulty of introducing regulation into "things concerning [civil] liberties." She also says the task she has set herself "requires a lot of work, a lot of patience, mindfulness, strong nerves, because I’m only human and in certain situations, sometimes, I feel like telling someone off."
"But more and more often I think about it, and I work on it, to suppress it,” she said. “It’s really easy to insult someone in everyday life … [but then] I think: OK, no hate.”
https://www.politico.eu/article/wife-of-murdered-polish-mayor-takes-on-hate-speech/
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"Lech Walesa on Why Democracy Is Failing: ‘There Is No Leadership’"
Opposition politician’s widow plans to use her platform as an MEP to spread a simple message: ‘No hate.’
By Zosia Wanat and Iga Lis
8/2/19, 5:00 AM CET
Updated 8/5/19, 3:14 PM CET
A photograph of murdered Gdansk mayor Pawel Adamowicz | Sean Gallup/Getty Images
Magdalena Adamowicz is upset. She's forgotten the pin she wears wherever she goes — it has “Imagine there’s no hate” written on it.
Adamowicz's husband Pawel, the mayor of Gdansk, was stabbed to death .. https://www.politico.eu/article/gdansk-mayor-pawel-adamowicz-killing-highlights-poland-deep-divisions/ .. in January. Since then she has made spreading that anti-hate message her motivation in her new job as a member of the European Parliament.
“If we answer hate with hate, we just drive the vicious circle," she said. "One day we’ll just reach the bottom, the hell, and what then, we all just kill one another?”
Pawel Adamowicz .. https://www.politico.eu/article/gdansk-mayor-dies-after-stabbing-pawel-adamowicz/ , 53, was a high-profile liberal critic of Poland's ruling right-wing Law and Justice party (PiS) and an advocate for gay rights and accepting asylum seekers. The man who killed him blamed the main opposition Civic Platform — the mayor's former party — for the time he had spent in prison.
The murder shocked Poland, was condemned by national authorities and sparked a debate about how hate speech can lead to violence. But the aggression hasn't stopped. In July, the first Pride march .. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-poland-lgbt/polish-police-detain-25-after-attacks-on-equality-march-idUSKCN1UG0GH .. to be held in the eastern city of Bialystok was marred by violent attacks on those taking part. Days later, a right-wing magazine .. https://www.politico.eu/article/lgbt-rights-polish-paper-dismisses-court-ruling-on-lgbt-free-zone-stickers/ , Gazeta Polska, gave away “LGBT-free zone” stickers in defiance of a Warsaw court order.
-
“It’s really easy to insult someone in everyday life … [but then] I think:
OK, no hate” — Magdalena Adamowicz, widow of late Gdansk mayor
-
“People who commit these excesses feel certain consent and impunity,” Magdalena Adamowicz, a 46-year-old lawyer who was elected to the Parliament in May as an independent and sits as part of the center-right European People's Party .. https://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/197490/MAGDALENA_ADAMOWICZ/home#mep-card-content , told POLITICO.
She pointed out other examples of hate speech and violence in Poland in recent years, including the burning of effigies of Jews during Catholic festivities and the printing of fake death certificates for mayors who took in refugees. (The nationalist All-Polish Youth group issued a “political death certificate .. https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10205779433680962&set=a.3217985544432&type=3&theater ” for Pawel Adamowicz two years ago).
Poland’s ruling party will exploit Gdansk murder
Maciej Kisilowski
https://www.politico.eu/article/polands-ruling-party-will-exploit-gdansk-murder/
Murder of Gdansk mayor highlights Poland’s polarization
Jan Cienski
https://www.politico.eu/article/gdansk-mayor-pawel-adamowicz-killing-highlights-poland-deep-divisions/
“These situations that are typical examples of hate speech, radical, dangerous behaviors, have been downplayed by the authorities, the proceedings [against the perpetrators] have been discontinued, people who committed these actions didn’t suffer the consequences. These groups feel unpunished,” she said.
Following the violence in Bialystok, police detained 25 people and Interior Minister Elzbieta Witek described ..
.. the people who carry out such attacks as "degenerates." Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said .. https://www.tvn24.pl/wiadomosci-z-kraju,3/premier-mateusz-morawiecki-o-marszu-rownosci-w-bialymstoku,955137.html : “In Poland there is a place for everyone, but there is no place for barbaric treatment of other people.”Funkcjonariusze nadal analizują zgromadzony materiał i wizerunki kolejnych poszukiwanych osób będą publikowane na bieżąco. Ci, którzy dopuszczają się ataków na inne osoby ze względu na ich odmienne poglądy to zwyczajni zwyrodnialcy i tego typu zachowania zasługują na potępienie.
— Elżbieta Witek (@elzbietawitek) July 22, 2019
Thousands of people gathered in Warsaw under the slogan "Stop hatred" last January, shortly after the murder of Pawel Adamowicz | Janek Skarzynski/AFP via Getty Images
Other PiS officials took a different line. Justice Minister Zbigniew Ziobro told the right-wing weekly Sieci .. https://wpolityce.pl/polityka/455999-ziobro-platforma-podsyca-zamach-na-wartosci-polakow .. that the opposition is fueling a “creeping attack on Polish values” and “supporting Christianophobia and intolerance,” while Education Minister Dariusz Piontkowski told .. https://www.tvn24.pl/wiadomosci-z-kraju,3/dariusz-piontkowski-minister-edukacji-o-marszu-rownosci-w-bialymstoku,954671.html .. TVN24 that “perhaps it is worth thinking whether those type of events should be organized since they arouse enormous resistance.”
[ Insert: Well Trump refused to condemn the Charlottesville anti-sematic marchers, instead he said "there are good people on both sides".
https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=153512592 ]
Everyone's a target
Adamowicz said she stood as an MEP to tackle the roots of hate crime and hate speech: disinformation, exclusion and social fears. And she added that it's not just minorities who are targeted. “I am Catholic, I’m white … I’m not very ugly or very pretty, not too tall, not too short … but I’m also targeted by hate speech. Not a Jew, not a black person, not a lesbian — today it concerns everyone,” she said.
Her goals include: creating a ‘’European Hate Speech Guide” that will detail the relevant laws in every EU country; forming a cross-party group of MEPs on hate speech and disinformation; getting a legal definition of hate speech in the EU; clarifying the distinction between hate speech and free speech; making internet providers more responsible for removing hate speech; and drawing up a list of sanctions for offenders.
She has already met with Sheryl Sandberg, COO of Facebook, and with representatives of Google, where she lobbied for the introduction of an identity test before people can set up online profiles.
Adamowicz acknowledges the difficulty of introducing regulation into "things concerning [civil] liberties." She also says the task she has set herself "requires a lot of work, a lot of patience, mindfulness, strong nerves, because I’m only human and in certain situations, sometimes, I feel like telling someone off."
"But more and more often I think about it, and I work on it, to suppress it,” she said. “It’s really easy to insult someone in everyday life … [but then] I think: OK, no hate.”
https://www.politico.eu/article/wife-of-murdered-polish-mayor-takes-on-hate-speech/
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